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The unrest in Kenosha in 2020, where Kyle Rittenhouse was involved in a shooting.
and occupy adjacent columns in contemporary American argument about guns, protests and state force, but they are very different figures: Rittenhouse is the then-17-year-old who crossed state lines to ...
, then 17, traveled to , during unrest in August 2020 and fired an AR‑style rifle, killing two men and wounding a third; he was later charged with five felonies but a jury acquitted him of all crimina...
The narrow legal answer: a misdemeanor charge that was under 18 when he possessed the AR‑style rifle was dismissed by the trial judge, and prosecutors did not secure a conviction that he possessed the...
shootings split along predictable lines: partisan-right outlets and pundits framed as a property-protecting civilian or a wrongly vilified defender, while left-leaning outlets and commentators emphasi...
, then 17, arrived in armed with an AR-15–style semiautomatic rifle and used it to shoot three people, killing two and wounding another . Prosecutors charged him with unlawful possession of a firearm ...